The windmills of Saskatchewan's mind

Last year, SaskEnergy secured 20 million gigajoules of natural gas supply, as well as 18 million gigajoules in storage. Increased demand from Saskatchewan homes and businesses due to the abnormally cold weather required an additional eight million gigajoules of gas to be purchased, enough to heat 100,000 more homes the entire winter. As a result, the corporation's gas cost variance account (which represents the difference between the cost of natural gas purchased by SaskEnergy and the price it charges its customers) exceeded $20 million, which helped to trigger the rate application.